Montreal's Greg Pateryn has lasting souvenir from first playoff game
Montreal's Greg Pateryn has a souvenir from his first career playoff game that he should be able to keep for a long time; the Canadien needed stitches to close up a large gash near his eye from a collision with Ottawa's Erik Condra in Montreal's 1-0 Game 4 loss.
"It was kind of a weird play altogether," Pateryn said to the Montreal Gazette. "The puck popped out to him, I was skating back to get in position and he was right there. I don’t think he saw me coming and he thought he was alone in front of our net. He turned to go to his backhand and I tried to time it perfectly and just bury him."
Pateryn did bury Condra, but his face was collateral damage in the collision, and Pateryn was only able to skate for one shift in the third period due to the cut.
The Canadiens are probably happy that the damage was limited to a nasty bruise and some stitches because the team already has injuries on the blue line; Pateryn is only playing because defenseman Nathan Beaulieu is out for the rest of the series with an upper-body injury.
(h/t Montreal Gazette)
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